Announcements

August 17, 2017 in Announcements // The high price of Vinyl: Electric Recording Co. releases Music for Viola & Cello at $385 USD
August 15, 2017 in Announcements // Devialet unveils partnership for TV audio hardware with UK giant Sky
August 9, 2017 in Announcements // Review updates: Harbeth, DeVore, Totem, Pass Labs, totaldac, AudioQuest, Pro-Ject, PS Audio… coming from Rafe
July 27, 2017 in Announcements // Burwell & Sons showcase Plain Jane, unveil new active and passive loudspeakers at California Audio Show
July 26, 2017 in Announcements // GoldenEar Triton References: in Dealers Now and Ready for Audition
July 25, 2017 in Announcements // Grado Labs Introduces Their Finest Cartridges: EPOCH and AEON
July 22, 2017 in Announcements // Lyn Stanley’s MOONLIGHT SESSIONS: VOLUME TWO Release Date 8/15
July 21, 2017 in Announcements // AudioQuest shipping Beetle Optical DAC with Asynchronous USB/Bluetooth
July 19, 2017 in Announcements // Rega launches all-new Planar 6 with Neo PSU, Ania moving-coil cartridge
July 14, 2017 in Announcements // Roon releases MQA Detection update
July 13, 2017 in Announcements // Devialet Air and Roon turn the stream into reality
July 10, 2017 in Announcements // Rotel introduces new integrated amplifier, preamplifier and CD player
July 6, 2017 in Announcements // McIntosh Announces new MA9000 Integrated Amplifier
June 30, 2017 in Announcements // VPI Industries $900 USD Cliffwood turntable with Grado cartridge shipping this summer
June 29, 2017 in Announcements // Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs shipping turntables, cartridges, phono stages
June 27, 2017 in Announcements // Noble Audio Wizard Birthday Sale Hits Wednesday for 45 Hours Only
June 22, 2017 in Announcements // Black Sabbath announce The Ten Year War: Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set with MQA high-res
June 14, 2017 in Announcements // Audio Research Announces its First Ever Trade Up! Program
June 9, 2017 in Announcements // New PS Audio Huron upgrade for DirectStream and DirectStream Jr DACs; MQA and Tidal coming soon
June 8, 2017 in Announcements // Canada: A unique land of high fidelity

CAS 2014

CAS 2014: In Which We Take Awesomeness Where We Find It

September 12, 2014

As a closer to my California Audio Show coverage, I’m going to tell you a little story about how I broke my own rule. CAS was really meant to be the cherry on top of a longish vacation. We’d celebrate our anniversary, then take the [...]

CAS 2014: I left my heart in San Francisco

September 11, 2014

Running around the Westin San Francisco hotel for three days with a press badge on, feeling like John Atkinson (or even, shrudder, Scot Hull), certainly had its moments. Even though I’ve been attending high-end exhibitions for a couple of decades, [...]

CAS 2014: Eficion’s near-perfect tweet

September 11, 2014

No other speaker component gets as much attention from innovators and fiddlers as the tweeter. It’s easy to understand why: your ears can forgive some weaknesses in the bass or even the midrange, but if you get the highs wrong, your product is [...]

CAS 2014: Stunt Systems, Sight and Sound with JBL and Mark Levinson

September 10, 2014

Again, ignore the misleadingly soothing pianist in the lobby. One of the real pleasures at an audio show comes when the big guns bring out all of their dogs and ponies. Some may systems are stunt systems by virtue of their cost, but they’re [...]

CAS 2014: Stunt Systems, Sony, Pass Labs and Blue Coast

September 10, 2014

Ignore the misleadingly soothing pianist in the lobby. One of the real pleasures at an audio show comes when the big guns bring out all of their dogs and ponies. Some may systems are stunt systems by virtue of their cost, but they’re otherwise [...]

CAS 2014: True Audiophile presents Spatial, Audion, Human

September 10, 2014

It’s almost mean to make Gary Alpern, the True Audiophile, wait until the very end to see his room covered. After all, we opened our coverage with pictures of him from a midnight listening session with John Stancavage. On the other hand, Gary [...]

CAS 2014: Headmasters, with Eddie Current, Questyle, Audeze, Headamp

September 9, 2014

Next to a rain-soaked dumpster full of old Altec drivers, the Headmasters ballroom had to be the saddest place in the HiFi world. The Westin’s air walls are a perfectly uniform shade of County Jail Beige, and the battered exhibit tables [...]

CAS 2014: Wyred4Sound keeps it simple

September 9, 2014

You can lead music lovers to a better lifestyle system, but can you make them buy? That’s the question a lot of companies are asking as they seek to offer an alternative to crappy department-store minisystems and the ubiquitous Bose boxes. [...]

CAS 2014: LRE speakers, clearly different

September 8, 2014

Reviewers are prone to wax poetic about speakers they like, often saying they “present a clear window to the music.” Not many transducers literally are a clear pane of glass, though. The new Clara from Las Vegas-based LRE Audio is one intriguing [...]

CAS 2014: Electra Fidelity and Fritz Speakers

September 8, 2014

The (self-described) dashing duo of Fritz Heller of Fritz Frequencies and Tony Chipelo of Electra Fidelity joined forces again for this show, and they seemed to be far too happy about it. Just look at these guys [in the shots below]. Nobody who [...]